Woodside Petroleum is being loaned the Robonaut anthropomorphic machine for a period of five years deployment in Western Australia. They plan to use it to "explore how the technology could be used to improve safety, reliability and efficiency in high-risk and remote environments".

The AFL Indigenous All-Stars group is in Broome for a four-day camp, which will provide the players with options for networking with each other, connecting with their communities (and with other Indigenous communities), and help the players to help the AFL to help them with their journeys.